World Tokens

Jamaica, Checks, Tickets and Tokens, Kingston, Jamaica Street Car Co, light red celluloid One Fare, legend, rev. value, 23.5mm, 0.67g/6h (Lyall 189; Ford 624; Tankersley 322); Jamaica Street Car Co Ltd, octagonal cupro-nickel One Fare (3), legend, revs. value, all 19mm, 2.63g/12h, 2.58g/12h, 2.57g/12h (Lyall 190; Prid. 140; Ford 624; Tankersley 322); Jamaica Public Service Co Ltd, yellow paper Employee One Fare, no. 81, 38 x 24.5mm [5]. One octagonal token extremely fine, others in varied state £40-50

Provenance: First bt H. Vendryes; last gift of R.A. Brandon 1988.

The Jamaican Street Car Co, proprietors Sam Burke and Tracy Robinson, established the first horse-drawn tramcar service in Kingston in November 1876 and the tickets were in use up to 1897, when the company was sold to the West Indies Electric Co, which itself was superseded by the Jamaica Public Service Co in 1923. The last electric tram in Jamaica ran in May 1948 and all surviving tramcars were sold for scrap in 1949